Tuesday, January 3, 2017

FARNESINA PALACE ON VIA DEI BAULLARI (first part)

PALAZZO DELLA FARNESINA AI BAULLARI
1522/23. The correct name would be Palazzetto Le Roy (Small Palace Le Roy) but it is also known as Piccola Farnesina
We do not know who built it, maybe Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481/1536), for the Breton prelate Thomas Le Roy (De Regis in Latin) who died before the completion of the work
The lilies of France in the first floor markers were mistaken for the lilies of the Farnese family and this was the cause of the incorrect name of the building that has absolutely nothing to do with the Farnese. Le Roy was allowed to use them because of his mediation between Pope Leo X Medici (1513/21) and King Francis I of France
From 1671 to early 1800 it belonged to the Silvestri family
In 1885 it was purchased by the City of Rome
1898/1904 Enrico Guj (1841/1905) changed it with the new FAƇADE ON CORSO VITTORIO EMANUELE II, which caused the demolition of one quarter of the building

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